Mostly About Organized Crime

11/12/2013

Montreal mobster Moreno Gallo "was gunned down at close range Sunday night while dining at an Italian restaurant in the coastal city of Acapulco" as reported by The Gazette:

Two thin men, dressed in black, about 18 to 30 years old, entered the
Forza Italia restaurant around 8:45 p.m. and shot Gallo repeatedly in
the head, said a Mexican official who asked that his name not be
published because "it's a delicate situation."

Gallo was deported from Canada last year.

The mobster was just a wee lad of nine when he
arrived in Canada in 1954, and only recently did authorities realize he
was not a citizen. Gallo was convicted for the 1973 murder of Angelo
Facchino and captured on police surveillance photographs in 2005 with
the since-slain Montreal Mafia patriarch Nicolo Rizzuto Sr.

At the time of his deportation his lawyer said Gallo would rather leave the country "than face assassination in
Montreal as members of the Rizzuto clan are knocked off one by one" as reported by QMI Agency.

Coincidentally, Gallo's murder was on the third anniversary to the day of the hit against the senior Rizzuto.

The 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia is suspected of backing a breakaway group from the Rizzuto clan of Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia for control over the drug rackets in
Montreal and New York, and the turf war has resulted in dozens of murders
over the last few years.

09/14/2013

Marcel Côté has withdrawn from the race for city council in Rivière-des-Prairies outside Montreal, QB Canada after a news report claimed he "signed a joint plea a few years ago in support of the return to Canada
of Moreno Gallo, a friend who had been expelled from the country several
years earlier for prior criminal dealings" as reported by CBC News.

In a released statement Côté says he has "been forced to step down
because of unjust attacks by my opponents," and "these claims are
without any foundation" as reported by The Montreal Gazette.

The good people of Montreal have been beset by mob violence and scandals.

An all-out war among rival clans has taken dozens of live over the last few years, and the Charbonneau Commission is investigating claims that the Montreal
Mafia and dirty politicians took cuts from government
contracts to construction companies in a pervasive bid rigging scheme.

01/05/2012

The reputed mobster was just a wee lad of nine when he arrived in Canada in 1954, and only recently did authorities realize he was not a citizen. Gallo was convicted for the 1973 murder of Angelo Facchino and captured on police surveillance photographs in 2005 with the since-slain Montreal Mafia patriarch Nicolo Rizzuto Sr.

Although Gallo had been fighting the deportation order his lawyer says says he "would rather live in Europe than face assassination in Montreal as members of the Rizzuto clan are knocked off one by one" as reported by QMI Agency.

10/13/2011

He was convicted for the 1973 murder of Angelo Facchino and captured on police surveillance photographs in 2005 with the since-slain Montreal Mafia patriarach Nicolo Rizzuto Sr., and last year he lost a court challenge against a deportation order by the Canada Border Services Agency.

Gallo's latest appeal claims that because he was convicted 1974, the question over whether he can remain in Canada depends on an interpretation of the Immigration Act that was law at the time. Back then, Canada would not have been permitted to deport a permanent resident with a serious criminal record who had resided in Canada for many years.